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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Sharing is Learning
Last week was a great week for sharing among teachers. Microsoft ran their Partners in Learning Global Forum in Prague Czech Republic. They had 500 educators from...
From Putting People First
No one likes a city that’s too smart
This week London hosts a jamboree of computer geeks, politicians, and urban planners from around the world. At the Urban Age conference, they will discuss the latest...
From Putting People First
Using ethnography to study asthma
Ethnography can be used to inform important health and policy decisions. But there are few public case studies that illustrate the value of ethnography for this...
From Putting People First
What does it mean to be a digital native?
The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won, argues Oliver Joy on the CNN website. It was a bloodless conflict fought not with bullets...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Postdoc “Best Practices”
The Computing Research Association has adopted a set of “best practices” for postdocs, the result of work done by Anita Jones and Erwin Gianchandani under the auspices...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Amazing Zeta Code
But can it encode itself? src Sergei Voronin was an expert in analytic number theory, especially the Riemann zeta function. He proved a sense in which the Riemann...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration is the Thing
In Supermarket News: " ... Haggen and other retailers are showing how to collaborate with trading partners on mutually rewarding promotional and merchandising...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Confidence
In Linkedin: Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO on creative confidence, with some useful links as well. " ... creative confidence is the ability to come up with breakthrough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Can Games Improve Vision?
I recall a conversation with an eye doctor a long time ago who swore to the use of eye exercises for improving vision. Can games be used as simulations to specifically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Goods Firms Seek Data Scientists
Adage makes the breathless claim that even Consumer Package Goods firms (CPGs) are now seeking data scientists. Well excuse me, they have always used data scientists...
From Wild WebMink
Intended to Fail?
Was Freiburg’s cancellation of its open source migration a foregone conclusion? With friends to support my terrible German, I tried to find out – see ComputerWorldUK...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The Importance of Funding
More than five years ago, my school expressed an interest in adding computer programming classes to the curriculum. Since I had not taught programming in over ten...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice to Microsoft Education Marketing–Computer Science
For nine years my job at Microsoft was to promote the use of Microsoft technology in computer science education. I started with universities but moved over to K12...
From The Noisy Channel
Continuing to Post on LinkedIn
I just posted another pair of articles on LinkedIn: Understanding Relevance Relevance is Complicated I’ll continue to use The Noisy Channel as a personal blog,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet end of Year Status
Kleiner Perkins provides lots of interesting data regarding the Internet at the end of the year. Always thought provoking and useful for presentations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Virtual Research
Had another excellent interaction with John Milby, CEO of the startup Full Scale Virtual Research,which uses some of the technology developed at Procter & Gamble...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital and Non-Digital Research Tools
In Progressive Grocer: On the integration of digital and non digital research. Perhaps obvious, but it is well put here. In particular how increasingly granular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Learning
From KurzweilAI: More on deep learning. On the future of bio inspired neural network infrastructure intelligence. We creep closer to human intelligence by...
From Computational Complexity
Too Much Competition?
On Friday the New York Times ran an article on how online retailers constantly adjust prices to match their competitors. Their ability builds on many tools from...
From Schneier on Security